Ransomware Prevention and Malware Attack Solutions
Safeguard your clients with a secret weapon in the war on cyber extortion. Avoid cyber extortion of your encrypted essential business data with Datto's ransomware protection solutions.
Ransomware Protection: How to Prevent Ransomware
Datto protects businesses against ransomware attacks and ensures control and ownership remain undisrupted.
What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or locks your files and demands payment to access them. Although there are multiple strains of ransomware, all fall under two main types: crypto-ransomware and locker ransomware.
Regardless of the strain, ransomware is a criminal money-making scheme that is triggered by tricking users into clicking on deceptive links using social engineering tactics or by exploiting system vulnerabilities.
Some strains go a step further and mark the files for permanent deletion. The perpetrators then demand ransom payments (usually in untraceable cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) for the private key required to decrypt and access the files.
To prevent attacks like this, managed service providers (MSPs) should adopt a layered approach that includes employee education, IT security, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) technology to achieve the best possible cyber resilience for your business and their clients.
The Solution: Protect Data Against Cyber Extortion with Datto
Datto RMM: Prevent and Detect Ransomware
The first step to protecting IT systems is to keep them patched and up to date. Datto RMM delivers effective policy-based patch management to keep clients’ machines secure. Datto RMM also takes the next step on ransomware defense by including native Ransomware Detection which monitors for crypto-ransomware and attempts to kill the virus to help reduce the impact of an attack.
Proactively Respond with Autotask PSA
Identifying attacks is step one in reducing the impact of a ransomware attack, and with Datto RMM and Autotask PSA, you can proactively respond. Datto RMM monitoring alerts are intelligently routed into Autotask PSA so technicians can focus on top-priority tickets. An intelligent alert-to-ticket engine reduces noise, strips out duplicates, and updates tickets with any new status from Datto RMM.
Datto SIRIS: Protect and Recover
The last line of defense is all about protecting and recovering your data. No matter what the cybercriminals target, Datto SIRIS will protect physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures and data. With Datto SIRIS, not only can you protect your data, but you can also recover rapidly to minimize downtime. SIRIS also detects ransomware within backups, saving time when locating your last clean system restore point.
Secure SaaS Data in the Cloud
Ransomware can impact data stored in cloud applications, too, so it’s critical that business data in the cloud is secure. Datto SaaS protection eliminates the risk of becoming a victim of a ransomware attack. Even if ransomware locks your data on cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with Datto SaaS Protection data is easily recovered.
Layers of Protection from Ransomware
When it comes to protecting business data from ransomware attacks, there is no single solution that can fully protect you. It’s vital to take a multi-layered strategy to improve cyber resilience.
Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity programs teach users about the dangers of social engineering and phishing emails and outline sound security practices about email attachments, malicious links, and more.
Ransomware Detection & Planning
Businesses always need to plan for the worst to happen, to do this they need to have and regularly test disaster recovery plans (DR plans). This will ensure that they know what to do in a disaster and how to return to operation. Ensure that you are using tools to detect attacks across your networks to ensure a rapid response and minimal spread.
Ransomware Prevention
There are two major parts here, Antivirus software and system patching. If a malicious link or attachment is accessed, the antivirus will try to detect the ransomware to avert an infection . However, new strains are being created faster than antivirus can protect against them, so some strains do succeed. Additionally, patching software vulnerabilities helps to prevent cyber attackers from accessing systems.
Ransomware Recovery
The last line of defense is having a reliable and regularly tested backup of your systems. A data protection solution such as Datto SIRIS provides the ultimate failsafe in a layered defense strategy, taking backups of data and systems and storing them in a Datto’s private cloud. If you fall victim to an attack, you can simply recover your systems back to before the attack happened.
Testimonials on Datto's Ransomware Protection
“When a client was infected with ransomware that encrypted and locked their files, there was no need to panic. Without Datto, the amount of data loss and downtime in cases like this would be cripling.”